The Grid’s one-click WordPress install is now updated to 2.2.1. This one has important security fixes and fine tuning over last month’s 2.2 version. Since our one-click installer is not an updater (it will overwrite your blog), we encourage exisitng WordPress users to check out how to upgrade here.
Our new GPU (Grid Performance Unit) analysis tool is live inside the AccountCenter. This extraordinary new tool will help you track GPU usage of scripts, software, and files on your Grid account. The tool will also offer suggestions to reduce usage.
There are two report types, a basic mode which will provide the number of GPU’s used each day and an advanced mode which will show hourly or daily GPU usage for individual pages. The highlights are a powerful interactive graph, a handy FAQ, and some helpful tool tips via small alert icons.
IMPORTANT NOTICE: GPU’s are now activated but billable GPUs will not begin to accumulate until after July 15th. To get more details regarding when your account will be affected please visit our KnowledgeBase article.
Our new GPU analysis tool has been deployed! This new tool will help you track scripts, software, and files which are causing GPUs on your Grid account to be used. Here’s what’s waiting for you inside the AccountCenter:
There are two report types, a basic mode which will provide the number of GPU’s used each day and an advanced mode which will show hourly or daily GPU usage breakdowns for individual pages. We’ve also added a clickable graph giving you a dashboard glance at your usage, an FAQ, and some handy tool tips via small alert icons. (mt) wants to publicly thank everyone here who worked on this and our customers who’s feedback and comments were most helpful. Go check it out now.
Our engineering team is now 50% complete implementing the enhanced SmartPool v.2 system for Grid-Service clients. The team has made significant progress in speeding up the whole roll-out process. The remaining 50% is expected to come online at an even faster pace than before!
(gs) Grid-Service customers that have a MySQL GridContainer can now add multiple users to their accounts. Users can be given permissions on a per database basis. Customers can add up to 50 users for Advanced containers, 20 users for Pro containers and 10 users for Lite containers.
(mt) Engineers have performed various upgrades which include adding more RAM and applying system updates to the load balancers which handle all Grid related traffic. These upgrades have significantly increased their capacity to route requests and handle large amounts of load. This upgrade was performed with no downtime and Grid customers can immediately reap the benefits.
Our engineering team is now 30% complete with implementing the enhanced SmartPool v.2 system for Grid-Service clients. We will continue providing updates as additional progress is made.
The busy (mt) ninjas have updated our one-click WordPress install to 2.2 on the Grid. This looks to be a significant upgrade…You can learn more about it straight from Matt right here.
Now, if you already have WordPress installed on your Grid account, Do not(!) use the one-click installer to upgrade your current version of WordPress. It will break your blog and erase all of your hard work. WordPress has a good 5 step walkthrough on upgrading here.
Last but not least, (mt) would also like to send a special thanks to Matt Mullenweg and the entire WP team for all of their hard work. Congrats!
The Zend Optimizer and both versions of PHP on the Grid have been updated today, the new versions are:
These versions have been thoroughly tested to work on the Grid. In addition to these upgrades we have preinstalled all Pear modules marked ‘stable’. If customers want to specify other versions of PHP for application compatibility they should consult our Knowledge Base article.
We have received many reports of customers that would like the default character set of PostgreSQL databases set to UTF-8. Many applications require this character set so we have made it the default character set on all newly created PostgreSQL databases.
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